It’s happened to all of us: You eat a delicious meal, then wind up feeling bloated and gassy for the rest of the day. Fortunately, one easy way to fight gas and bloating is to combine your food properly. Proper food combining allows you to digest and absorb your food well, as well as create a more inner friendly and alkaline environment in your body, which makes it difficult for disease or illnesses to take place.

When I say “food combining,” I mean:

• Eat Fruits Alone or on an empty Stomach, however if you must combine only do so with protein fats such as yogurt (plain), kefir, or nuts and seeds. Why? Normally fruits take 30 min. to digest, but when eaten with other foods such as a protein or a starchy food they may take 3-5 hours. This then causes fermentation, which leads to poor assimilation of nutrients, and ultimately sets up an environment for yeast overgrowth.

• Never eat a protein with a Starch! This places digestion at a standstill because the digestive enzyme pepsin secreted when eating protein is cancelled out by the digestive enzyme ptyalin because they neutralize each other, causing poor absorbtion, digestion, and elimination. In turn causes toxicity in the body which then leads to other ailments. Yeah, this means meat and potatoes don’t mix!

• Always eat protein with non-starchy or ocean veggies..ex. Fish with steam veggies or large veggie salad with protein. Or veggie omelette

• Always eat grains and starchy veggies with non-starchy or ocean veggies . Ex. Spinach salad with sweet potato, red peppers, pumpkin seeds, chick peas, a little sprinkle of goat cheese on top.

• Don’t drink anything with your meals! Drink no closer than 10-15 min before a meal. And wait 1 hour or so after you eat. The reason: It dilutes your digestive enzymes which aid digestion. However, an exception to this rule would be warm tea (green or ginger) or soup, because these aid digestion.

• And try to Never eat carbohydrates by themselves if you want to burn fat, combine with veggies or green salads!!!

• Take Digestive Enzymes! Most of the time your body doesn’t have enough, so you have to supplement.

Here is an example of a day’s meal that will keep the bloat at bay:

Breakfast: 1-2 eggs with veggies such as spinach, onion, and red peppers.

Snack: Protein shake

Lunch: Seasoned chicken breast with lots of veggies such as broccoli, asparagus, red peppers (do a light stir fry with olive oil) Snack: Sweet potato with butter (cultured preferably)

Dinner: Salad topped with olives, feta or goat cheese sprinkles, tomatoes, a little olive oil, a little balsamic vinegar and grilled wild salmon

Night snack: ½ cup of yogurt or kefir

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